Eudemus was a student of Aristotle and an associate of Theophrastus. Following the death of Aristotle he went back to Rhodes and founded a school there. Though it seems his school did not survive his death, Rhodes nonetheless was the home of several philosophers in the Peripatetic tradition.Like Theophrastus he wrote a history of astronomy. He also wrote a history of mathematics and treatises on arithmetic astrology, geometry and physics.
Around 320 BC, Eudemus wrote a formal history of Greek mathematics. No longer extant it was summarised in the fifth century CE by Proclus (411-485 BC). From this and other scattered sources it appears that Thales (624- 547 BC) was the first to start and prove certain elementary geometric theorems, although it is not known exactly what the concept of ‘proof’ may have meant to him.
Eudemus of Rhodes (c.370 BC - c.300 BC)
Monday, January 18, 2016
The most popular posts
-
Ferdowsi is the pseudonym of the Persian poet Hakim Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi. He was born and grew up in a family of Persian landowners in...
-
Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn al Ḥusayn al-Karajī was a Persian mathematician and engineer. He made a great contribution to algebra by first tre...
-
Diocles was a philosopher, priest, an emperor, mathematician and geometer. He was a contemporary of Apollonius of Perga. This famous mathema...
-
The copy of "Keys of Mercy and Secrets of Wisdom" under consideration was written in two parts designated, "Part One, I...
-
Eudemus was a student of Aristotle and an associate of Theophrastus. Following the death of Aristotle he went back to Rhodes and founded a s...
-
Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan Al-Azdi, sometimes called al-Harrani and al-Sufi, is considered the father of Arab chemistry and one of the ...
-
Jia Xian was a Chinese mathematician during the Song dynasty. He described Pascal’s triangle, more than six centuries before Pascal, and use...
-
Born in 1000 BCE, Kashirau Divodas Dhanvantari, the king of Kashi is hailed as the father of surgery in Ayurveda. He taught Ayurveda orally ...